Comparing Last Login Date to Current Date

Hi Jonathan,

 

When using the datesupport custom context object, you'll need to use one of the string methods (ie. getDateAsString()) prior to trying to output the date.

 

If you want to compare the dates, you may be able to convert into a format that freemarker would recognize as a date, but I've found it easier to just convert the dates to milliseconds and work with them that way. Here are some examples I just brewed up:

 

<#assign date_now_number = datesupport.now.millisecondsAsString?number />
date_now_number: ${date_now_number}<br />
<#assign date_yesterday_number = datesupport.now.addDay(-1).millisecondsAsString?number />
date_yesterday_number: ${date_yesterday_number}<br />
<#assign date_tomorrow_number = datesupport.now.addDay(1).millisecondsAsString?number />
date_tomorrow_number: ${date_tomorrow_number}<br />

 When it comes to comparing, keep in mind that a more recent date/time will have a larger value, so:

<#if date_now_number gt date_yesterday_number>
Now comes after yesterday<br />
<#else>
Yesterday comes after now<br />
</#if>

<#if date_now_number lt date_tomorrow_number>
Tomorrow comes after now<br />
<#else>
Now comes after tomorrow<br />
</#if>

So in those two examples above, the else condition should never be satisfied. These examples are kind of silly though, and not very useful. I just wanted to demonstrate how the comparisons worked.

 

Let's get a bit closer to what you're trying to do:

<#assign date_visit = rest("/users/id/1/last_visit_time").value?datetime("yyyy-MM-dd") />
<#assign date_visit_number = datesupport.setDate(date_visit).millisecondsAsString?number />
date_visit_number: ${date_visit_number}<br />

<#assign date_weekago_number = datesupport.now.addDay(-7).millisecondsAsString?number />
date_weekago_number: ${date_weekago_number}<br />

<#if date_visit_number gt date_weekago_number>
Visited within the last week!<br />
<#else>
Has not visisted within the last week.<br />
</#if>

 

This example demonstrates how to get the date from the REST API and convert it into something useable for comparison. Note that if you want to get a more granular value for date_visit, you may need to play with the date formatting a bit. Right now it's just grabbing the day, month, and year.

 

I hope this helps!